Gwen Stefani, 53, cuts a chic figure in black and white minidress

Gwen Stefani looked amazing in a black and white minidress when she appeared as a guest at the Gloss Angeles Beauty Podcast in Los Angeles on Friday.

The singer, 53, looked radiant in a one-sleeved mini dress with black and white wavy stripes as she spoke in front of a live audience about her makeup line.

On the same day, he announced a series of UK tour dates for 2023.

On the podcast, the multi-talented artist wore a monochrome checkered cardigan and matched her manicure to the look.

She wore black fishnet stockings and slipped on a pair of heeled houndstooth ankle boots to finish off the look.

The Grammy Award-winning singer wore a metallic blue cat eye liner and nude pink lip gloss over a warm brown lip liner.

For jewelry, the No Doubt songwriter rocked a gold necklace bearing the name of her beauty brand in a medieval font.

The star, who is married to country singer Blake Shelton, 46, wore her hair in a high ponytail with bangs parted to the side and framing her face.

The singer-songwriter dyed the lower half of her hair jet black in contrast to her iconic bleached blonde look.

The SoCal native spoke to the live audience and beauty podcast hosts Kirbie Johnson and Sara Tan about what she would like to offer the community as a 50-year-old woman and how beauty was always her first passion before the music.

The star recalled how she worked at a makeup counter in her 20s without any training.

Through that first job, she learned how to do professional makeovers, and the rewarding feeling inspired her current brand.

Stefani launched GXVE Beauty this year in March, even though she previously filed a trademark for P8NT Beauty in 2018 and had wanted to create her own line for a long time.

“It was a great feeling doing their makeup,” she said. “It would be so much fun to do that to someone and that emotion that they have, that feeling of ‘I didn’t know I could feel or look like this,’ is an incredible gift that I gave them.”

“And then they’re going to give me that back,” he continued. ‘That’s where I came from [up] with the name GXVE, because I feel that makeup is very generous, not only to get what you need in the morning to get going, but also when you share that.’

Later, the beauty icon and the hosts opened up about the impact her music and art have had on feminism.

Stefani explained that she did not realize that impact and how much gender inequality had affected her until the last few decades.

“Even at the time, it was a big deal, but I was never constrained by my gender,” she said candidly. ‘Maybe because I was very naive and sheltered.’

She named the culture of growing up in Anaheim with an amazing and protective family as an influence that later led to one of her biggest hits: Just A Girl.

‘One day, when I began to think about gender [and] about me, I remember walking to school [as a] teenager and someone whistled at me or something like that,” he said.

‘I was like, ‘Oh, that’s weird. Do they look at me like that now?’ I’m just a person [and] now they look at me like that,’ he said.

‘There’s a kind of power, but then it’s a kind of [victimization and] I didn’t know what it was,” he said. “When I wrote Just A Girl, I was thinking about that.”

She also talked about how she realized she had a talent for writing music and entered a predominantly male-dominated genre without giving much thought to the disadvantages she might have faced as a woman.

“I was just being me,” she said, continuing to lean into her femininity despite being in an all-boy band.

“I was just trying to find myself and when I wrote my first song, which I didn’t know I could write and it just kind of channeled through me, that’s when I thought I might have something to offer.”

That path subsequently led her to her beauty brand today. “Everything that followed that, beauty-wise, happened as decoration for the song.”

She said it was a rewarding challenge to come up with a bold makeup line made for performance that is made up of clean ingredients, which was not the initial intention.

In response to her many competitors in the beauty industry and other celebrity makeup lines, the Orange County native said her only focus is herself.

“I don’t really care, because I know this is super authentic to me,” she said. ‘I’m the real makeup artist. I don’t care what other people do because I know.

“Everything I’ve ever done has somehow led me to this.”